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  1. IBM does this to Thinkpads on How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain · · Score: 3, Informative

    They also included the Windows drivers for the hardware there, too. I had to wipe the drive and do a Ghost image install of Win2k, and only after I'd wiped both(?!) partitions on the drive did it occur to me that I needed one of them to get all the hardware working. I eventually got an ethernet driver re-assembled from floppies and got on the internet to download the rest. That's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. . .

  2. Loving VoIP (and of course Linux) on Wi-Fi, Linux, And VoIP In Canada · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I work for a major food/beverage distributor, and we use VoIP for our entire phone system, both here in the corporate office and at our many distribution centers all around the U.S. It's reliable, clear, and like the article says, really flexible. We have a system that routes voicemail into out email boxes so we have the option of listening on the phone or with WinAmp. Nice if you're on the phone and need to check your voicemail. It's also cool to be able to crank up my speakers, put the phone on speaker, and play voicemail to the person on the other end.

    And, of course, I use Linux for all serious tasks on my home network. Gateway, router, DNS, email, desktop, printserver. I have a couple of Winboxen for lite gaming, but that's it. Still trying to get Linux in the door at work. I know Citrix runs on Unix, but does anyone know if it has a Linux port yet?

  3. Re:Being that this is a mainstream article.. on Linus Torvalds about SCO, IP, MS and Transmeta · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, you say Linus doesn't speak English natively. Does that mean he uses an available patch to add that functionality? ;)

  4. SCO code =Bad chop job? on Settling SCOres · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now, I haven't seen the code, but the way it's described sounds to me like SCO may have grafted comments from the Linux source onto the SysV code. Comments being as unique and "fingerprinty" as they can be, this might have seemed like a good plan for making the code look like it came from SysV. The litmus test may be the origin of the comments, especially the jokes. I know if someone ripped off my joke, I'd for SURE let people know. . .

  5. DAMMIT! on FCC Approves Media Consolidation · · Score: 1

    Now my news choices are TV, /., DrudgeReport (aka let's see what's in the Washington Post today), and english.aljazeera.net, if that every comes back up.

  6. Re:Right on! on PeltierBeer · · Score: 3, Funny
    Great site! But, my wife being a chef, if she found out I'd spent 50 zloty on a French press and absconded with the outers to hack an electronic beer stein, she'd have my gonads in, um, bad places not attached to me, possibly in a light sauce.

    Perhaps, if I bought two. . .

  7. Right on! on PeltierBeer · · Score: 3, Funny
    Finally, the killer app for the Cafeteri. . Caferet. .. uh, mug-handle deal thingy. Where can I buy one of those?

    Seriously though, great design. And probably no heavier than a decent beer stein.

    WHERE'S MY BEER STEIN?!?!?!?

  8. I'm afraid if Yoda is passed over. . . on Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . .then the emereror has already won.

  9. Potential on Stem Cell "Master Gene" Found · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since they've now apparently isolated this gene, isn't it kind of like having "root" access to stem cells? Hopefully this kills off any remaining debate over cloning/killing babies and paves the way for real, theraputic research.

  10. Um, WOW. on 3D Computer Generated Movie From France · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take THAT, France-bashers. :) This looks really cool.

  11. Looks like they found another use. . . on Floppy the Robot · · Score: 1

    . . .for a 3.5 floppy drive. They appear to be using one for their web server. . .

  12. Netcraft proves it. . . on Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    IBM and Apple are dying!!!

    Or something. . .

  13. New Ask Slashdot on Pew Internet Project Study on Internet Non-Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any Non-Internet users on /.? How do you feel about the new Pew study? Post your responses below.

  14. I was coming up. . . on Worlds Largest Computer Party, In Progress · · Score: 1
    ..., so they had better have gotten that party started.

    Seriously, I'd so much rather be there now than at work. (sigh)

  15. Obligatory OOP is dead post on The Post-OOP Paradigm · · Score: 1
    Soon Extreme Programming, along with all interpreted scripting and compiled coding will follow.

    Shell scripts and .bat files are the wave of the future. . .

  16. Which is more illegal, NAT or DNS? on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 4, Informative
    NAT conceals IP addresses from software, which DNS sets up an obscuring layer betwixt the IP addresses and the user for purposes of convenience. In both cases, the IP address is hidden, though still discoverable using the proper methods.

    Add to this caller ID blocking, and most importantly, Anonymous Cowards.

  17. Cue the CPU fart jokes! on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, this is really a good idea. I almost said it was cool, but, I mean, duh, right?

  18. Re:Ethics of Overclocking? on Intel's Anti-Overclocking Technology Simplified · · Score: 4, Informative
    RTFA. Not the ethics of OC'ing in general i.e. your hardware by you, but the ethics of vendor OC'ing, i.e. your hardware by the sleazebag who's selling you a processor that is A) inviolation of the warranty B) likely to damage itself and c) therefore likely to wipe out your data with no recourse for you.

    Otherwise, I agree with you.

  19. AKA Vaporware Catalog on World's First Encyclopedia of Future Inventions · · Score: 4, Funny
    Got a great idea you've not yet executed?

    Want it to bear your name even if it goes undone until someone else does it after you die?

    Even if it's impossible?

    My submission: Zero-Point Energy source /w built-in UPS, Line Conditioner and Drink Mixer.

  20. Re:dupe or NOT? on Windows Media for Embedded Linux Systems · · Score: 1
    PLEASE tell me you meant MOOT. Mute is silent. Moot is irrelevant. /Grammar Nazi.

    The bit about the GPL is spot-on, though.

  21. x10 camera! on Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine · · Score: 4, Funny
    Mount inside doctors office! Spy on babysitter, kids, neighbors! Stops SARS!

    Failing that, meet in in Boulder. Mother Abigail said that The Dark Man is gathering his own on the other side of the mountains. . .

  22. Great Idea! on LCD Display/Image Capture Device · · Score: 1

    Then, I can install VNC, hold a mirror up to the screen, and /. my machine!!!! :)

  23. Ok, great but why would I want that? on Microsoft Shared Source -- With a Twist · · Score: 1
    Seriously, CE sucks. I'm not going to pay to improve CE for them.

    Still, CE does allow us to make jokes about it in combination with ME and NT in a bucket with my feet in it. . .(rimshot) Thank you! I'll be here all week. . .

  24. Wait just a gol-dang minute. . . on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 3, Funny

    This won't open my Excel spreadsheets! Clearly inferior software. . .;)P

  25. Rock On! on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now all I need is Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and I'll be all set.

    What's that?

    It's WHAT century?

    Shit. Oh well. No Cholera for me. . .